Throughout history the figure of the
witch has embodied both male nightmare and female fantasy. While early
modern women used belief and ritual to express and manage powerful
feelings, the symbols and images surrounding the witch in the New World
largely distorted the European views of Native American religions. In our
own era, groups as diverse as women writers, academic historians and
radical feminists have found in the witch a figure who justifies and
defines their own identities...
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